Plan of Bawarda.
The city of Bawarda was designed by James M. Wilson in 1926 and was inspired by Lutyens’s remodelling of the Garden City and City Beautiful ideas in New Delhi (1911–1940). Bawarda was an attempt at social and ethnic mixing and also offered larger institutional buildings such as the Abadan Technical Institute.
Crinson, Mark. “Abadan: Planning and Architecture under the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.” Planning Perspectives 12, no. 3 (1997): 341–59. doi:10.1080/026654397364681, pp 349.
Crinson, Mark. “Abadan: Planning and Architecture under the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.” Planning Perspectives 12, no. 3 (1997): 341–59. doi:10.1080/026654397364681, pp 349.
China-Kazakhstan Border
Border Condition
This satellite image from Nasa's Earth Observatory displays the stunning contrast in landscape along the border between China and Kazakhstan.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Available at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=84199&src=eoa-iotd
2013
Satellite Imagery